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Quotes About Rest

Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.
~ William Mountford
Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
~ Sheridan Le Fanu
To the beginning of the rest of our lives. —Leo
~ Sherry Thomas
the hero is a secret agent? Well, who gives a crap about the rest of his case once he has met the heroine. Time for moody angst!
~ Sherry Thomas
One took slippery elm and let it lie in milk until it became soft. This applied to the burns enabled to sleep better at night.
~ Sherwood Anderson
There's nothing better than doing nothing.
~ Sheryl Berk
You know how to rest physically. You do not know how to rest mentally.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
What was the fruit of the Messiah's grace? Rest—a rest pertaining to my existence, most assuredly superior to passing minutes of stillness or peace I may have experienced in meditation. I have come to appreciate that this new life is something Jesus wants for everyone, irrespective of race or religion. It is a unique and eternal boon available to everyone who turns to Him with confidence. So, today I walk on in gratitude.
~ Sid Roth
with the few small spots of light like golden stars in the night, the sweet stale scent of incense, and the warm smell of the burning wax. And she at rest within her own star.
~ Sigrid Undset
It was good to lie there in our bags watching the glow of our dying fire and the deeper glow of sunset beyond; but most of all it was good to feel the ground again and to know we were back in a country we loved.
~ Sigurd F. Olson
Garrett had been bed-bound for the last week with a cough.The doctor had prescribed rest and leeches. Garrett had consented to the first treatment but insisted that his bankers provided more than enough of the second.
~ Simon Scarrow
I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.
~ Simone Elkeles
anyone who on Sunday wanted to forget his weekday soul
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
Be the shade for everyone to rest, dream and find peace.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Give your soul some rest while you are still alive, for after death only your body that rest in peace.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
~ Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
~ Sir Edward Coke
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin',But it's nicer to lie in bed.
~ Sir Harry Lauder
It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
~ Sir James George Frazer
Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Happy are they that go to bed with grave music.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Sleep is a death; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed!
~ Sir Thomas Browne
These dead bones have… quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests.
~ Sir Thomas Browne